William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot
William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot DL (27 March 1811 – 19 January 1887), styled The Honourable from birth until 1856, was a British courtier and Conservative politician.
Background
Born at
Career
He was returned to Parliament for Denbighshire in 1835, a seat he held until 1852. In 1856, Bagot succeeded his father as baron, entering the House of Lords.[2] He served in the Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby and Benjamin Disraeli as a Lord-in-waiting (government whip in the House of Lords) from 1866 to 1868 and again from 1874 to 1880.
Apart from his political career he was
He was commissioned as a captain in the part-time Staffordshire Yeomanry on 29 August 1827, commanding the Uttoxeter Troop during the Chartist disturbances in 1842 and later acting as regimental commander in the absence of the elderly commanding officer. He was promoted to major on 25 April 1848 and lieutenant-colonel in 1851, and was appointed Lt-Col Commandant on 11 April 1854. He retired from the command in 1874 and was appointed the regiment's first honorary colonel.[2][3][4] He was also a deputy lieutenant for Staffordshire.
Family
Lord Bagot married the Hon. Lucia Caroline Elizabeth, daughter of
Notes
- ^ "Bagot, William (BGT828W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. pp. 99–100.
- ^ Capt P.C.G. Webster, The Records of the Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry, Lichfield: Lomax, 1870, pp. 138, 162, 166, 173; Appendix.
- ^ Army List.
- ^ Hamar Alfred Bass (1842–1898), Burton-on-Trent.org.uk
References
- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, [page needed]